01/19/2024
By Urmitapa Dutta

The College of Fine Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences invites you to a talk by renowned scholar Prof. Atalia Omer. In this talk, Prof. Omer will contextualize the current moment of Jewish mobilization against the Israeli assault on Gaza. Based on empirical and ethnographic research, the talk will illuminate why (mostly young) American Jews reassess the conflation of their Jewish identity with the policies of a nation-state and why they call with outrage: "Not in my Name."

Atalia Omer, Ph.D., is Professor of Religion, Conflict and Peace Studies at the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies and the Keough School of Global Affairs at the University of Notre Dame. She is also Senior Fellow and Dermot TJ Dunphy Visiting Professor at the Religion, Conflict, and Peace Initiative at Harvard University’s Religion and Public Life program. Some of her notable publications include: Decolonizing Religion and Peacebuilding (Oxford University Press, 2023), When Peace is Not Enough: How the Israeli Peace Camp Thinks about Religion, Nationalism, and Justice (University of Chicago Press, 2015), and Days of Awe: Reimagining Jewishness in Solidarity with Palestinians (University of Chicago Press, 2019).

Wednesday, Feb. 7, 2024
11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.
UCC 260 | University Crossing
220 Pawtucket St., Lowell

Please join in person or register to receive a link to the livestream.

This event is free and open to the public and sponsored by the Rev. Dana McLean Greeley Fellowship for Peace Studies at UMass Lowell and the College of Fine Arts, Humanities & Social Sciences.